Saturday, November 6, 2010
Fall Planting
It's November 6th and I'm just getting the fall garden started. Late as usual.
I have some transplants that I started from seed in August that needed to go into the garden last month but they never quite got into the ground. Some fell and were damaged and the ones that did survive have been in the small pots and cells so long they are stunted. But since I try not to go to the nursery to buy transplants I'll use these and hopefully a few will survive.
In this garden you can't really see much in the photo.
In the upper left there is a tomato that was a volunteer from another part of the yard. I have no idea what the variety might be because I had never grown tomatoes in that area before so I'm not sure where that seed came from. I'm pretty sure that whatever the variety is it's not one that will appreciate the fact that I'll be trying to make it grow during the winter.
In the upper right is a Cherry tomato that is on its last leg and will get pulled out within the next few weeks or however long it wants to hang around since I'm not hurting for space right now.
In about the center of the picture is a Oregon Spring V tomato. I'll really wanted to try this variety out as a winter tomato, but it is so small you can't even see it in the picture. I don't think this one has much of a chance to survive.
To the left of that is an Early Golden Acre cabbage. That one should have a chance.
Labels: Cherry Tomato, Early Golden Acre, Oregon Spring V, Winter Tomato
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Tomato Cages
Tomato season is back and not having good tomato cages is always a problem. This plant (Red Beefsteak) was getting big so I put a stake a few feet behind it and tied it to the cage thinking I would be taking care of the problem before it started.
Everything looked good and the plant kept growing fine.
Then of course it still fell twisting the cage with it.
Well then I had to get another stake and drive it in the ground from the other angle and tie that off.
With that done the plant is upright again, but with the cage being twisted and the plant wanting to grow more I don't expect this fix to last long.
Labels: Cherry Tomato, Red Beefstake
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Time To Move The Sage
Back in May I had gotten 2 / 4" Sage and 2 / 4" Lemon Thyme plants. They came from Home Depot, so I don't have the vaeriety for the sage. Both of the Lemon Thyme plants lasted about 3 months and then died. Not sure why, both were planted in different plots as were the Sage.Both of the sage plants have done OK even after one of them was covered for a few months by melon vines, Sweet Barcelona Hybrid. After the melons were done and the vines were removed the Sage plant made a nice recovery.
The Sage in the first photo was put in an area that was the first plot in which I removed all of the soil down to a depth of about 2 1/2 feet and then but it back with a mixture of compost and manure. This plot produced nice Cherry Tomatoes, Early Girl Tomatoes and Bell Peppers. The soil here is perfect but now needs to have new compost tilled into it to be ready for new plants, so it's time to move the Sage. I don't want it here anymore because I want to keep digging new compost into this plot each time I put in new plants, so the sage is just in the way.
A few months ago I had taken a volunteer King Palm out of the ground and put it in a large pot. It has now recovered from the transplanting, but why waste the space around the Palm, so I had been thinking of putting some Spinach in there.So with nowhere else to go with it I started to divide the Sage and put 4 of them in with the palm. They should recover and cover nicely, but I still have to find a home for about 10 more plants once I finish dividing it.
Labels: Bell Pepper, Cherry Tomato, Early Girl, King Palm, Lemon Thyme, Sage, Sweet Barcelona Hybrid
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